[Dixielandjazz] Fw: San Francisco restaurant facade

[Robert S. Ringwald]

            Regarding the question from Bill Haesler about the pix on the 
restaurant in SF.  Below is a reply from reedman Jim Rothermel.

--Bob Ringwald


> Hi Bob & Bill -
> The muralist is Bill Weber - his website is billwebermuralist.com - he can 
> be contacted at bill at billwebermuralist.com.
> I thought it might be Teddy Wilson, but after looking at the photos on his 
> website my guess would be Art Tatum. I'll be interested to see who the 
> piano player turns out to be!
> Jim Rothermel
>
> Robert S. Ringwald wrote:
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>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Haesler" 
>> <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
>> To: "Bob Ringwald" <robert at ringwald.com>
>> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz Mailing List" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 3:09 AM
>> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] San Francisco restaurant facade
>>
>>
>>> Dear our friends from the Hew Hess of Hay,
>>> Particularly those on the left side of your big country.
>>> A jazz friend turned up at our Sunday gig yesterday with a great 'snap' 
>>> (literally), taken from a cable car in San Francisco as he went through 
>>> Chinatown (am I still allowed to say that?).
>>> It was a facade of a Chinese restaurant (Moon Street?) with a wonderful 
>>> montage depicting some jazz legends,
>>> Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa (I think), etc.
>>> The showpiece portrait is the pianist.
>>> But who is it??
>>> We had several guesses, but I'm not really about them.
>>> The pianist looks like a black (more non-PC?) Don Ewell or Dick Hyman.
>>> Which I doubt.
>>> It was a small pic and I was (hic) half-way through the afternoon. So 
>>> how would I know?
>>> OK. Wot's the story?
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Bill.
>>>
>>>
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